Rowi developers launch Start screen sharing site MyTil.es

Here’s a fun little experiment from Hidden Pineapple, the minds behind Windows Phone and Windows 8 Twitter client Rowi. It’s called mytil.es and is simply a place to share your Windows Phone 8 home screens.The site allows you to:

See the latest screenshots posted

Sign in with Facebook or Twitter and upload your own

E-mail your screenshots to a specific e-mail address to upload them

View details about each screenshot

Download the full size screenshot

Facebook Like or Tweet a screenshot

They are doing a soft launch and just seeing if there is any interest for projects like this. Be sure to report any bugs and leave feedback for the team. For me personally, it's fun to see little projects like this for the Windows Phone community. I'm looking forward to seeing how other people organize their start screen. So, what apps occupy your home screen "above the fold"? Share them in the comments below!

Bonus Tip: Don't know how to do a screenshot in Windows Phone 8? Just press Power and the Windows key at the same time. Then head to your Photo Hub and look under Screenshots. That's it!

Some of the screens over there are just horrible. If I wanted a phone full of small tiles I'd go with an iPhone. There's one REALLY good one that's basically using 3 columns though, a girl split into 3 pics in the left column, empty middle column and some tiles on the right column. White background. Girl is blonde wearing red. Best one I've seen yet.

This is EXACTLY what I needed! It is so time-consuming to get the Start screen perfectly geared towards you, and I think this will help beginners get some inspiration for creating their own. I just hope the devs can find ways to make the site last more than a couple days or weeks.

I really wish someone would make a utility that would allow changing the colour of an individual tile--then we could get creative. WP is starting to look bland with all the devs just choosing the theme colour instead of nice custom icons.

Android is more customizable. There are way more unique things you can do with an Android homescreen, from widgets to themed icons etc. In the end, WP8 is just a bunch of coloured tiles, there's nothing all that unique between each start screen.

Not that I don't like that, because I much prefer the WP8 start screen compared to Android's often cluttered and ugly home screen. But in terms of customizability, Android always wins, hands down.

In the about section they mention for people to not be dicks and use common sense. It's a fun tool for the community to show off how they've organized their Start screen. Hopefully we won't be seeing any peckers.